Brazilian businessmen who left their country due to insecurity and the economic situation are betting on the current president and candidate for the October 2 elections, Jair Bolsonaro, to “save” Brazil, as an “antidote” against Lula da Silva.
Marco Martins left Brazil with his wife just over 80 days ago to live in Cascais, he has companies in his country and has already created others in Portuguese territory before arriving, while Fábio Latini arrived in Portugal in 2018, leaving in Rio de Janeiro the gyms. he had for sale, and today he teaches jiu jitsu out of a rented garage.
They do not know each other, but both blame previous governments for the current situation in Brazil and argue that only Jair Bolsonaro can be the “savior” of his country.
Fábio Latini, by the way, goes further, considering that Jair Bolsonaro is “the necessary antidote” against Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, former head of state of the country, “an ex-convict”, as he insists on calling him.
“Electing a president is not to be an eternal dictator, it is for four years. And, like an illness (…), I’m going to take the medicine, because that’s my illness. The disease that our country has is called petism [do PT, Partido dos Trabalhadores brasileiro que lidera a coligação que o antigo chefe de Estado brasileiro representa], Squid. Who is the antagonist? This is Bolsonaro,” he explained.
Therefore, “Bolsonaro exists because Lula exists”, because “if Lula had never existed, he would not need the medicine, the antidote”.
Marcos Martins, on the other hand, fears that Brazil, with Lula da Silva, will become “a Venezuela”, Cuba or Argentina.
If Lula wins these elections, Brazil “is over”, and Portugal will reach a wave of Brazilians who “will not fit here”, defended, for his part, the 56-year-old fighter and physical education teacher.
“People don’t like Bolsonaro, because he is very rude. He is very crude, he speaks the things he thinks, “admitted the small businessman, but in his opinion” that is a virtue “, because” it is the sealed truth “.
“I hope he is elected, he will stay for another four years,” said Fábio, adding that a “better” candidate may come after him. But, “as long as there is a committed Lula on the other side, Bolsonaro must be seen as the man who says what he thinks and is and goes to war, to confrontation with the PT,” he defended.
The “economic destruction” of Brazil that pushed him to Portugal, although allied to the desire to know the world, he considered that “it was the governments of Lula and Dilma [Roussef], previous, that ended the country. (…) ”, she reinforced. Because the current government, in his opinion, has already managed to improve a lot and now “the Brazilian economy is doing very well.”
Marco Martins has always been an entrepreneur and today his businesses cover three segments, insurance, business consulting for small, medium and large companies in various areas, mainly in technological innovation and business and financial plans and training for business leaders and entrepreneurs.
“The main motivation [para emigrar] it was security”, but Portugal also represented an opportunity to “expand the business” in the European market.
For the businessman, what the Bolsonaro government has been doing is “fixing the damage that has been left in the last 20 30 years” by the different governments of Brazil, “from the left and the right, from Fernando Henrique [Cardoso]Lula and Dilma [Rousseff]”, who “weren’t really worried about the structure of a country”, he adds.
Now, “there is no doubt, for example, that the Lula government has wreaked havoc in the country, so much so that it put him in jail,” he said. And today Brazil has one of the “intelligent men” that he claimed to have met, as Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes. Therefore, he said: “my vote will definitely go to Bolsonaro, there is no doubt.”
In total, there are 12 candidates competing for the upcoming presidential elections in Brazil. If none of the candidates obtains a majority of 50% plus one vote on October 2, the second round is held with the two most voted on October 30.
Source: Observadora
